Game development for Windows Phone 7 using XNA, Gusts Linkevics, Dotnet.lv [Anglų kalba] Games are one of the most popular applications on mobile platforms. This topic will cover how to start developing games for Windows Phone. What are requirements to start developing, development environment. Which technology to use Silverlight or XNA. What is the structure of XNA game and how to create multiscreen game.

Using Group Policy Preferences to configure User Environment – Peter Gubarevich, MVP Latvija [Anglų kalba] Till the recent time, Logon and Startup Scripts used to be a primary user and computer environment configuration tool. Learn how Group Policy Preferences change this systems administrator’s experience in a revolutionary way.

Introduction to Big Data using Hadoop on Windows Azure – Sergejus Barinovas, MVP Lietuva ir Romualdas Stonkus, MarkMonitor It is widely believed big data is one of the 10 most important IT trends in forthcoming 10 years. The major player in big data landscape is distributed processing software called Hadoop. Hadoop has been initially created by Yahoo based on the Google’s Map/Reduce research paper and later adopted by leading companies including Facebook. Great news for all of us – Hadoop is coming to Windows and Windows Azure platforms! That means not only possibility to process massive of data with the power of cloud, but also highly awaited integration with the existing Microsoft BI stack including SQL Server and PowerPivot products. For the first time ever, we can use best of both worlds and have end-to-end solution for the business intelligence over big data.